With just one day’s trading to go, the gap seems to be too big. At the end of last week, the Dow Jones Industrial average closed at a six year high, and, or so proclaimed commentators, the index was within just 380 points of its all time high, and it seemed as if the record could go this week.

Last night the index hit a new six year high, but at 11382 is just 35 points up on the week, and the record, reached in January 2000 of 11750 seems a...Read More

It’s hardly a pace that is only fit for the autobahn, but the German economic machine is moving forward again, and is gathering pace. One could say perhaps that it’s moved out of first gear into second.

According to six economic institutions that know the German economy, growth of 1.8% this...Read More

It’s hardly a pace that is only fit for the autobahn, but the German economic machine is moving forward again, and is gathering pace. One could say perhaps that it’s moved out of first gear into second.

According to six economic institutions that know the German economy, growth of 1.8% this...Read More

Thanks to James Bond, the Aston Martin became the dream car for many. But times change, and perhaps modern day cinema audiences who are influenced in their aspirations by product placements will find themselves desiring the latest, state of the art, sleek, bulldozer.

Have fears that a smoking ban in English pubs will lead to mass closures, gone up in flames?

After the habit was banned in Ireland’s drinking houses for the public, 600 pubs were eventually closed, and some feared that English pub’s profitability would disappear in a puff of clean air, when...Read More

Some of GlaxoSmithKline’s customers might wheeze, but there was no hint of constrictions to the corporate airways yesterday, as the world’s second largest drugs company announced a 35% rise in first quarter profits, after its asthma drug, Advair, has proved a big hit.

With just one day’s trading to go, the gap seems to be too big. At the end of last week, the Dow Jones Industrial average closed at a six year high, and, or so proclaimed commentators, the index was within just 380 points of its all time high, and it...Read More

Some of GlaxoSmithKline’s customers might wheeze, but there was no hint of constrictions to the corporate airways yesterday, as the world’s second largest drugs company announced a 35% rise in first quarter profits, after its asthma drug, Advair, has proved a big hit.

Would business benefit if all communication was conducted in text? Last night in the TV programme the Apprentice, Sir Alan Sugar, in an appeal for brevity, asked one of his potential apprentices, to restrict his answers to SMS like succinctness. Certainly it would perhaps be a good discipline for...Read More

With talk of a potential crash in house prices, gradually rising unemployment, a High Street that can’t get beyond first gear and a manufacturing sector that would be grateful if it could even hit first gear, you could be forgiven for...Read More

We are buying more than we are selling. Last year the UK bought Â£65.6bn more goods than it sold, and the overall balance of payments deficit on current account was Â£31.9bn, or 2 1/2% of GDP. That means a crisis is heading our way, right? According to the Bank...Read More